Indonesia: Diarrhea Claims 178 Lives In Baliem Valley
Bernama - Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
JAYAPURA (Irian Jaya), April 27 (Bernama) -- A diarrhea outbreak in Baliem Valley, Jayawijaya district, has claimed 178 lives within a month's time, ANTARA ...

Cholera claims 151 in Indonesia
News24 - South Africa
Wamena - A cholera outbreak in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua has killed 151 people in the last month and has made another 3 200 ill, says a health ...
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PNG debutant, big in heart if not in size
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... Hagan is PNG's most western settlement, by the troubled border with Irian Jaya, where Papuans are fleeing the Indonesian army. Aiton ...

West Papua Legal Action to Expose Jakarta Lobby
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
West Papua solidarity groups today welcomed law firm Mallesons Stephen Jacques’s legal action against the Howard Government and claim the proceedings will ...

Govt cannot silence human rights
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
... Bambang Yudhoyono's recent call for the Australian government to clamp down on organizations and individuals who support human rights in West Papua is baffling ...

Solomon Islands evacuation
CCTV - Beijing,China
... nights' efforts, we've finally left Solomon Islands and got to Papua New Guinea ... in Hong Kong, and the other 22 people from outside Guangdong Province have also ...
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Country's Largest Wood Flooring Convention is the Place to Be to ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
As the vast majority of merbau comes from Papua Province, Indonesia where 80 percent of logging is estimated to be illegal, many of these companies are ...

Diarrhoea outbreak kills at least 58 in Papua
Radio New Zealand International - Wellington,New Zealand
A diarrhoea outbreak in a remote area of Indonesia’s Papua province has reportedly killed at least nearly 60 people and left hundreds of others ill. ...

Papuan visa decision applauded
ABC Online - Australia
... human rights activists about ongoing abuses in that troubled province, but very little ... particularly in the separatist hot spots of Aceh, East Timor and Papua. ...
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Papuans 'hiding' after boat sinking
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... Nick Chesterfield, a spokesman for the Free West Papua Campaign, said the 18 students were said by networks in West Papua to be alive after their boat ...
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West Papua’s Cry For Freedom
CounterCurrents.org - India
By Ghali Hassan. The Australian Federal Treasure, Senator Peter Costello told ABC Radio recently: “West Papua has always been part of Indonesia. ...

Indonesia 'shrugs off' Papua talks
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... "It's a point we've often made to the Indonesians that, from their point of view, the sooner they move to special autonomy for West Papua and ensure that human ...
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Back to the Garden
Nashville Scene - TN, USA
Villevoye has spent time with the Asmat, a people living in Irian Jaya (New Guinea), part of the former Dutch possessions in Indonesia. ...

Sri Sri tours Far East, receives Taiwanese award
Newindpress (subscription) - Chennai,India
... At this, Yudhoyono suggested that the centre develop villages in Merauke in Papua province, as youth there need immediate attention following the recent ...

Leaders seek face-saving formula over Papua
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... he said."It's a point we've often made to the Indonesians that, from their point of view, the sooner they move to special autonomy for West Papua and ensure ...
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Anne of Green Able
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA
... Basically the companies that are logging in Papua New Guinea do not comply with the ... Traditional landowners in a logged area in the country's Western Province. .

West Papua: Australia-Indonesia relations threatened
UNPO - The Hague,Netherlands
... It seems that Jakarta will not tolerate any interference - perceived or otherwise - in Papua, its resource-rich province that lies at the eastern end of its ...
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Overseas Chinese back home from Solomon Islands
Xinhua - China
... from the riot-torn Solomon Islands arrived in Guangzhou City in South China's Guangdong Province at 00:29 Tuesday morning. They flew back from Papua New Guinea ...
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Uphold rights, Indonesians urged
NEWS.com.au - Australia
... in the troubled province. "It's true, as President (Susilo Bambang) Yudhoyono himself has admitted, there have been human rights abuses in Papua," Mr Downer ...
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Closing the Asylum Gate
TIME - USA
... the state." Coming amid tension with Indonesia over the granting of three-year visas to a group of independence activists from West Papua province, the policy ...

Mild Earthquake Strikes West Irian Jaya
Bernama - Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, April 23 (Bernama) -- A weak earthquake, measuring 4.9 on the Richter Scale, struck at 2.42pm today at West Irian Jaya, the Meteorological ...

Indonesia questions future of 42 Papuans
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... Indonesia has been accused of widespread human rights abuses since it assumed control of Papua, formerly known as Irian Jaya, after a United Nations referendum ...

More West Papua protests planned
Green Left Weekly - Chippendale,NSW,Australia
Groups affiliated with the Australia West Papua Association will protest outside Rio Tinto’s AGM in Melbourne on May 4 to highlight the company’s ...

Policy, public opinion and Papua
Green Left Weekly - Chippendale,NSW,Australia
... The recent report on Indonesian atrocities in East Timor and an incipient West Papua solidarity movement in Australia are two factors that should be a warning ...
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Myanmar boatpeople to leave Indonesia's Aceh soon
Moneycontrol.com - Mumbai,India
... Political asylum is a sensitive issue in Indonesia since 42 people from its easternmost province of Papua received temporary visas from Australia last month ...
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The phoenix survives
The National - Port Moresby,Papua New Guinea
... As head of Pangu, the Chief led Papua New Guineans into the modern ... significant spheres of influence in the country, notably the Morobe province, regarded for ...

More Papuans die in diarrhea outbreak
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
In Wamena Hospital alone, two more people died late Monday, bringing the total number of deaths in the hospital since the outbreak on March 16 to 10. ...
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Diarrhoea outbreak kills 58 in Papua
Gulf Times - Doha,Qatar
... rainy season. More than 630 people have sought treatment at hospitals in Jayawijaya’s district town of Wamena, he said. He explained ...

Letter From Australia: In a tiff over West Papua
New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia
... Relations have turned prickly since, after 42 of 43 asylum seekers from West Papua were granted temporary protection visas in Australia. ...

Editorial: Abandoning West Papua
NewMatilda.com (subscription) - Sydney,Australia
... it vital to peace and stability in the region that they put their own house in order — that they cease repression in all its forms in West Papua, create the ...

EU backs RI's stance on Papua
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
... Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, said Friday problems in Papua must be ... said Hassan briefed him about the situation in the resource-rich province. ...

Greenpeace gives 'honors' plywood company
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
... in Papua. Greenpeace Southeast Asia forest campaigner Hapsoro alleged the company was profiting from plundering forests in the easternmost province. ...
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Australian Coalition of West Papua Support Groups
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
... to get advisory opinions from the International Court of Justice concerning arrant irregularities in the administration and annexation of West Papua. ...

WEST PAPUA SITUATION
Special Broadcasting Service - Australia
WEST PAPUA - rich in natural gas and home to one of the world's largest gold and copper mines owned by the United States - is caught between conflicting ...
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Turning a blind eye
On Line opinion - Australia
... The people of West Papua are experiencing the backwash of the same mindset. ... Similar reports (pdf file 257KB) from West Papua are now also freely available. ...

Greenpeace on campaign for Papua forest conservation
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
... Greenpeace earlier called on the government to declare a logging moratorium in the provinces of Papua and West Irian Jaya. Ginger ...

A Papuan proposal
Australian - Sydney,Australia
... off Aceh's far northeastern tip) to Merauke, the southernmost port city in the former Dutch New Guinea (later known variously as Irian Jaya, Irian Barat and ...
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Papua Proving a Wakeup Call to Indonesia
OhmyNews International - South Korea
... It had been known as Irian Jaya, and later, after the collapse of Suharto, the new government decreed the use of the original name, Papua. ...
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West Papua’s Cry for Freedom
Center for Research on Globalization - Canada
by Ghali Hassan. The Australian Federal Treasure, Senator Peter Costello told ABC Radio recently: “West Papua has always been part of Indonesia. ...
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West Papua – just whose campaign is it?
Crikey - Templestowe,Australia
... And it looks as if West Papua is the new East Timor. ... Oquist is working with Melrose over West Papua. Fair enough. The bloke's got to make a living. ...

Papua province hope
Advertiser Adelaide - Adelaide,South Australia,Australia
A WINDOW of opportunity remains to solve the bloody rebellion in Indonesia's Papua province a report says. The Council on Foreign ...

Boat carrying 21 people sinks off Papua province
ABC Asia Pacific - Australia
A spokesman for Indonesia's Papua province police says the boat sank after colliding with a speedboat, about one kilometre north of Jayapura. ...
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Report urges world to help solve rebellion in Papua
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
WASHINGTON (AP): The world has a window of opportunity to help solve a long-running, bloody rebellion in Indonesia's Papua province, but it may be closing ...
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Australian bishop decries asylum changes as step backwards
Catholic Online - Bakersfield,CA,USA
... tensions with the Indonesian government following the granting of refugee status by Australia to 42 asylum seekers from Indonesia's troubled Papua province. ...

Bishop says asylum processing changes "a step backwards"
CathNews - Australia
... to avoid further tensions with Indonesia following the granting of refugee status by Australia to 42 asylum seekers from Indonesia's troubled Papua province. ...
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Freeport's 1Q Earnings Astonish Analysts
Mineweb - Johannesburg,South Africa
... who are upset that a US company is profiting from a poor province in Indonesia--and separatists--who favor independence for the Papua province--have targeted ...
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CNODC buys Indonesia oil block
China Knowledge Online - Singapore
The rights are supposedly for the Manokwari block in Indonesia's Papua province, one of 10 onshore and offshore oil projects originally tendered by the ...

Chinese firm seeks license to build $1 billion timber plant in ...
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
A Chinese company is seeking for the government's approval to set up a timber processing factory worth up to US$1 billion in Papua province. ...

Tarkett AG Denies Illegally-Sourced Merbau From Papua
Yahoo! News - USA
... Indonesian non-governmental environmental organizations that the firm sells illegally-sourced merbau tropical hardwood from Indonesia's restive Papua province. ...

Australia's Papua stance not helping Indonesian democrats
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... seems incapable of learning from recent history. Australia is following the old East Timor policy of appeasement on West Papua. ...
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Jakarta attacks Uniting Church over West Papua
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
INDONESIA'S ambassador to Australia has blamed the Uniting Church for fomenting unrest in West Papua and criticised Canberra's response in comments likely to ...
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Papuan refugees highlight struggle for independence
Taipei Times - Taiwan
... his twin two-year-old sons and more than 30 other people, he set off from the northern coast of Papua, the Indonesian province once called Irian Jaya, on New ...

Reports from Indonesia's Papua province say four people are dead ...
Radio New Zealand - Wellington,New Zealand
Reports from Indonesia's Papua province say two soldiers and two suspected Papuan independence fighters have died in a clash near the Papua New Guinea border. ...

Indonesia suspects plot to shake Papua
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
Recent events from violent rally in Papua province to attack on a military post to asylum seeking were a proof that a certain group is trying to create ...

Most Australians back Papua
Australian - Sydney,Australia
... 5.5 per cent of Australians opposed self-determination for Papua, while 17.7 ... East Timor, a former Indonesian province, won independence after the intervention ...
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Mobile telephone communications expanded in PNG
ABC Asia Pacific - Australia
Residents in the Gazelle and Rabaul districts in Papua New Guinea's East New Britain province are able to use mobile telephone services for the first time. ...

Chinese company to invest in RI forestry sector
Antara - Antara,Indonesia
... 2008. Since 2004, Papua and Irian Jaya Barat provinces have a quota of 1.2 million cubic meters of logs from natural forests. The ...

Australian premier stands firm on Indonesian refugees
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... The 2.5 million people of Papua, once called Irian Jaya, complain of being oppressed by the Indonesian military and having the natural riches of their homeland ...
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International focus on new West Papua refugee bid
Torres News - Cape York,Queensland,Australia
... Deliverance Island is in the far North West of the Torres Strait only 18 nautical ... on fuel and was believed to have dropped them near Bula in Papua New Guinea ...
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UN agency to examine Papua claims
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... The mother, Siti Pandera Wanggai, 40, fled her home in West Papua last week after she says she was coerced by the Indonesian military into making false claims ...
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We risk too much in placating Indonesia on West Papua
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... "The Government's stuck in a rut. It's applied the same tool" as with earlier boat people. But the real issue, West Papua, is different. ...
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NGOs call for logging moratorium
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
... New Guinea island consists of the two Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Irian Jaya, and the neighboring country Papua New Guinea, a former colony of ...

A perilous Pacific odyssey for Papuan independence
International Herald Tribune - France
... In 1963, to appease Indonesia's left- leaning dictator Sukarno, who was demanding that West Papua be made part of Indonesia, President John F. Kennedy ...
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Government caught in bind
Courier Mail - Australia
... be becoming increasingly tangled in its efforts to satisfy Indonesian sensitivities on the issue of refugee claims from the Indonesian territory of West Papua. ...
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RPT-CNPC buys Indonesia oil block from local firm-source
Reuters - USA
CNPC purchased the Manokwari block in Indonesia's remote Papua province from the little-known Indonesian party, which was awarded the onshore oil and gas ...

Yudhoyono Says Indonesia May `Review' Relations With Australia
Bloomberg - USA
... Yudhoyono said he may ``review'' the nation's relations with Australia after asylum seekers from the Southeast Asian nation's Papua province were granted visas ...
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Jakarta made me lie: refugee girl's mother
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... in Papua New Guinea, said she was coerced by Indonesia into making a false appeal for the return of her daughter to the eastern Indonesian province of Papua. ...
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Yudhoyono vows action on gold mine
International Herald Tribune - France
JAKARTA President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia vowed Monday to address allegations that a huge US-owned gold mine in Papua Province was polluting the ...
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Miners Follow Metals Prices Higher
Houston Chronicle - United States
... shares may also have benefited from news earlier Monday that Indonesia's president refused to bow to protesters demanding a mine in Papua province be shut down ...

Australia slams door on Indonesian asylum-seekers
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... Papua, formerly known as Irian Jaya, was incorporated into Indonesia through a controversial United Nations-sponsored 'act of free choice' in 1969. ...
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Surveillance plane plan for Territory
NEWS.com.au - Australia
... The Orions will operate from the RAAF base at Darwin airport and will mount round the clock patrols of the waters between West Papua (Irian Jaya) and Australia ...

Australia 'should confront Indon'
Australian - Sydney,Australia
... Senator Stott Despoja addressed a Free West Papua concert in Melbourne and called on the Australian Government to grant permanent visas to 42 asylum seekers ...


Jakarta Says Yes to Talks, No to Papua Independence
Voice of America - USA
The Indonesian government says it will never consider independence for its troubled and remote Papua Province - but it is willing to talk about more autonomy. ...
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Indonesia delays Australian bird flu aid over Papua refugees
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
... million) of aid it was to get from Australia for stemming the spread of bird flu after Australia granted temporary visas to asylum seekers from Papua province. ...
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New guide to sustainable wood flooring
People & the Planet - London,UK
... This species, a valuable hardwood only commercially available in Indonesia’s Papua Province and the neighbouring country of Papua New Guinea, is being ...

West Papua could damage Indonesian relations: expert
ABC Online - Australia
He told our reporter Dhana Quinn that West Papua is a highly sensitive issue in Indonesia, and if the Australian Government is seen as being sympathetic to the ...

Australia says Papua row won't break Indonesia ties
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
... Reuters) - Australia tried to soothe ties with Indonesia on Monday after granting asylum to 42 boat people from the country's troubled Papua province and as ...
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Indonesia's ambassador to Australia flies to Vanuatu
ABC Asia Pacific - Australia
... the ambassador briefed Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Australia's granting of temporary protection visas to 42 people from Papua province. ...
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Indonesia says 3 Papuan students possibly flee for PNG
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
... Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry said Monday it received report from Papua New Guinea indicating that three students have fled Papua province for political ...
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More PNG people visit Papua province, says expert
Antara - Antara,Indonesia
... terriroty is larger than the Indonesian People crossing the neighboring country for the past few years as economic condition in Papua province is better than ...

Indonesia postpones signing of Australia's bird flu aid over visa ...
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
... postponed the signing of bird flu financial assistance from Australia in protest to the granting of temporary visas for 42 asylum seekers from Papua province. ...

Cry freedom: West Papua's plea to the world
Asia Pacific Media Network - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... condemned Canberra's decision to grant the Papuans temporary protection, stating it was baseless, it harmed attempts to resolve West Papua's problems and ...

West Papua: Call for Sanctions after Papua Visas Granted
UNPO - The Hague,Netherlands
... Jacob Rumbiak from the West Papuan Association says they are relieved to have escaped from ... home or something like that when they compare with in Papua," he said ...

Richard Chauvel: Papua crucial to Indonesia
Australian - Sydney,Australia
... The decision to hold elections for governor in the newly created province of West Papua indicates that the Government is determined to pursue the partition of ...
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PNG fears West Papua refugee influx
Australian - Sydney,Australia
PAPUA New Guinea fears a possible influx of asylum seekers from the neighbouring Indonesian province of West Papua after deadly protests against a US-owned mine ...

Papua New Guinea bishop: “Islamic extremists coming to West ...
AsiaNews.it - Italy
... a report in the Australian daily, “The Australian” by Giles Cote, the bishop of a diocese of Papua New Guinea on the border with West Papua, the Indonesian ...
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Papua issue throws up paradoxes
Crikey - Templestowe,Australia
... Under Megawati, West Papua was divided into provinces (which resulted in the creation of West Irian Jaya) – ostensibly to make the region easier to manage ...
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